Abstract
This chapter continues to assess home mission programs and traces the diffusion of the social gospel within traditional, evangelistic ministries among mainline Protestants. Meanwhile, denominations were forced to retrench their budgets for home missions during the Great Depression. During this time, mainline Protestants strove to maintain the United States as a Christian nation, a theme that permeated their home mission work. Yet, another critical topic in this chapter is the growing reluctance of some Protestants to advocate Americanization and their increasing acceptance of cultural pluralism, even while efforts to assimilate immigrants continued in various forms. Finally, this chapter highlights the continued work of mainline Protestant leaders to challenge Asian exclusion and the ways they responded to Jewish refugees trying to flee Nazi Germany and legislation Congress considered during 1936 (the “Kerr-Coolidge” bill) that aimed to assist undocumented immigrants.
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